Word: ovens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catalogued dozens of local happenings that somehow seemed to happen in different localities all over the country, yarns that are probably untrue but widely retold. There is, for instance, the story of the old woman who, whenever her dog or cat got wet, would dry it off in the oven. Then her children bought her a microwave, with gruesome consequences. Perhaps the most popular American folk yarn, the "vanishing hitchhiker," has been around for decades (centuries, if you count the version in Acts 8: 26-39). It has been updated for the automobile age. A driver picks up a hitchhiker...
...fritz") is intact; and if his optimism is a bit white at the temples, it still goads him on. But Reinhart ultimately comes to believe that life's meaning can be boiled down to the profound couplet: "Nothin' says lovin'/ Like something from the oven." The transformation has affected his creator as well. The tortuous and arcane language Berger displayed in Neighbors has been effectively streamlined. It now breaks for self-examination: "It was ridiculous that I lived almost half a century trying to measure up to the principles of other people ... you change with...
...September 28, 12:05 p.m.--Police, the Cambridge Fire Department, and Building and Grounds (B&G) engineers responded to a fire alarm at the Biochemistry Laboratory. Lab assistants had placed plastic measures in a sterilizing oven, causing smoke...
...therefore unpredictable. One policeman will thrive in an assignment that may turn another into an alcoholic. In 1971 a Wall Street Journal survey found that the most physically draining and mentally numbing jobs were working at a foundry furnace, selling subway tokens, lifting lids on a steel-mill oven, and removing hair and fat from hog carcasses. Yet one worker took both pride and pleasure in the fact that he could clean a hog carcass in 45 seconds. Incidentally, it is also worth mentioning that being unemployed is a lot more stressful than an unsatisfying job, a fact that some...
...sisters from Cheshire to Saudi Crown Prince Fahd's nuptial offering: diamond and sapphire jewelry in a green malachite case, estimated to cost at least $1.5 million. Between the lowly spud and the regal ice are such newlywed staples as goblets, china, tableware, pots and pans, a microwave oven, a vacuum cleaner-but no toaster. Nonessentials included a 2-ft.-long solid gold dhow from Bahrain and a Steuben glass bowl from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. In the campy department are matching terry bathrobes with Charles and Diana stitched on their backs prizefighter style, a gift from Bridesmaid...